Paul Butler left his heart in Alberta. That’s where he went to school, at The Alberta College of Art and Design, graduating in 1997. After he went home to Winnipeg, he found he missed what he called “all that art school energy.” …

Brian Turner in his garage, working on a prototype of a space elevator, photo by Jeff Riedel for The New York Times Jacob Lawrence, Builders Series, “Saw and Nails,” 1998, DC Moore Gallery Jacob Lawrence, Builders Series, “Men on Ladders,” 1998, DC Moore Gallery Jacob Lawrence, “Artist in Studio,” print, 1994, DC Moore Gallery People who spend their free time thinking through their hands, toiling away in their garages in the hopes of building something useful for NASA (story here) would have interested Jacob Lawrence. …